And grown adults using terms like "fanboys" aren't at all weird.
Well TransferMarkt had his transfer value at closer to 20m, and the "
most valuable free agent on the market". PSG were demanding almost 30m for him 6 months earlier from Atletico, so you might wanna reconsider how much they'd have accepted for him under contract.
https://psgtalk.com/2020/01/the-pri...t-pay-if-they-want-to-sign-cavani-in-january/
https://www.marca.com/en/football/spanish-football/2020/01/15/5e1f56c8e2704efa6b8b462a.html
https://en.as.com/en/2020/01/30/football/1580396771_623890.html
Once again, every signing, be it Paul Pogba or Bruno Fernandes gets a massive signing on fee, agents fees and then massive wages on top. Hell Paul Pogba gets a fecking
3.4m pounds loyalty fee annually. Now 4m EUROS (widely reported, for example
here,
here) 3.8m pounds, and less than 200k /week aren't huge sum a la Zlatan by any stretch, so yes, Cavani was "free" in the footballing sense of a free transfer. Even if we were to say he gets 15m a year all in, well we're talking peanuts for United who paid 105m euros for Paul Pogba and then pay him 3.4m loyalty + 16m wages + bonuses /year,
all players at United get a shit tonne of money.
So if your only point there was that footballers are never actually "
free", erm, no shit, great insight.